End panel for open-car seats and the seat-post with which it connects.



N0. 709,5l7. Patented Sept. 23, I902.

J. SEEBERGER. END PANEL FOR OPEN GAR SEATS AND THE SEA'T POST WITH WHICHIT CONNECTS.

. (Application filed Apr 24, 1902.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

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J. SEEBERGER. END PANEL FOR OPEN CAR SEATS AND THE SEAT POST WITH WHICHIT CONNECTS.

(Application filed Apr. 24, 1902. (No Model.)

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END PANEL FOR OPEN-CAR SEATS AND THE SEAT-POST WITH WHICH 1T CONNECTS.

hPECTFICAJlIiON forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,517, datedEeptember 23, 1902.

Application filed April 24:, 1902.

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Be it known that 1, JOHN SEEBERGEinoi i he city of \Vatervliet, countyof Albany, and ,State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in the End Panels of OpenOar Seats an d the Seatdfhsts withwhich they Connect, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of the metalpanels and the end posts of open-car seats, by which improveinent themost prominent points of connection between the wood and metal will behid from View and the unsightly appearance caused by the separating orspreading apart of the wood and metal where connected be avoided.

My improvements also relate to the construction of the end posts of theseats in such a manner that the cnrtain-grooves formed therein shallextend downwardly below the floor of the car instead of stoppingthereat, whereby the entrance of rain driven by the wind will not enterthe car between the curtain-bottom and the car-floor.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there are twoplates of drawings containing six figures illustrating the applicationof my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter-referenceused in all of them.

Of the illustrations, Figure 1 is a front end elevation of the panel endof a car-seat with part of one of the panel parts, as well as the upperend of one of the seat-posts, broken off for convenience inillustration. Fig. 2 is a side edge view of the parts shown at Fig. 1,illustrating also a part of the car-sill in section. Fig. 3 is a sectiontaken on the line :0 a: of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a side view of theseatpost, showing the groove upon that side 01 the post for theinsertion of the tonguing edge of one of the panel parts andillustrating a part of the car-sill in section and showing thecurtain-groove upon that side of the post fronting the view. Fig. 5 is afront view of one of the panel parts, and Fig. 6 is an edge view of thepanel part shown at Fig. 5.

The several parts of the apparatus thus illustrated are designated byletter-reference,

Serial No. 104,444. (No inodelf! and the function of: the parts isdescribed as follows:

The letter Pdesignaies the end panel, made of metal and as Formed by thetwo panel parts 17 19 The letters I) designate one of the seatposts,each of which has produced in each of its opposite side faces thecurtain-groove G, shown as extended downwardly below the carfioor, sothat the post part in which the curtain-groove is formed will lap pastthe outer face of the sill S, and on the inside lower end the post D ismortised into the sill at M.

The letters (Z designate a groove made in each of the opposite sides ofthe posts D.

The letters 19" designate the tonguing inner edges formed on each of thepanel parts 1.1 with each of the latter arranged to enter edgewisc oneof the grooves (IF, with the vertical edge of each oi the panel partsabove the tonguing part 19 arranged to abut at p" on the post sides andthe bottom to rest in the bottom of the groove at p The letters Fdesignate ears projected inwardly on lower edge of the panel pars forconnection by the use of screws inserted in the ears to enter thecar-floor l.

The letters E designate ears that are arranged to project from each ofthe panel parts at right angles thereto and where they will bevertically in line with the edges of the grooves d when the tonguingedges of the panel parts are entered therein and also vertically in linewith the edge of the panel part1) where above and the vertical edge mwhere below the ton guing part. As thus placed these cars connect one ofthe panel parts 19 to the seat-post D at each side of the latter toretain them in their tonguing position. As thus made and arranged toconnect, the union between the wood and metal at such points as becomeunsightly is entirely avoided.

No claim is made herein for theconstruction of the curtain-groove apartfrom its combination with the improved construction of seat-posts bywhich this improved adaptation is made available.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patcut, is-

1. The combination with the seat-posts of an open car each having agroove vertically formed therein at each of its opposite sides, of ametal panel formed in two vertically-divided parts, each provided with atonguing part on its inner vertical edge, and each adapted to have itstonguing edge part inserted in one of said grooves in the seat-post, andoutside its entered tonguing part to be secured to the postsubstantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination with the seat-posts of an open car each made toextend downwardly below, and outside of the car-sill into which it ismortised, and provided with a curtaingroove arranged in each sidethereof to extend downwardly below the car-floor, and. having anothergroove in each of its opposite sides; of a metal panel verticallydivided in two panel parts each of which latter is constructed with atonguing inner edge; and each of which is adapted to be inserted in oneof the last-named grooves, and be thereat secured to the postsubstantially as, and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at the city of Troy, this 17th day of March, 1902, in thepresence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

JOHN SEEBERGER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, W. E. HAGAN.

